| Tuesday, April 16 |
| Bill Murtagh |
Conference Welcome |
Space Weather 2018 – In the Spotlight
Chair: Bill Murtagh |
| Brent Gordon |
SWPC – Always Moving Forward |
| Lt. Col William Ryerson |
The USAF Space Weather Operations Center |
| Mark Gibbs |
MOSWOC – 4 years old! What have we achieved and where are we going? |
| Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr. |
The Space Weather Enterprise (SWE) - The Time Is Now! |
| Steven Clarke |
Building Resilience against Space Weather Effects: An update from the Office of Science and Technology Policy |
Panel Session: September 2017 Storm - Discussion on User Needs and Science Capabilities
Chair: Howard Singer |
| Rob Redmon |
Overview of September 2017 Space Weather Period |
| Anthony Abate |
The Effects of the 10 SEP 17 Solar Event on HF Voice Comms Over the Atlantic |
| Michele Cash |
NOAA SWPC Operational Model Performance during the September 2017 Storms |
| Capt. John Ross |
September 2017 Space Weather Impacts |
Space Weather Policy
Chair: Tamara Dickinson |
| Seth Jonas |
EMP, Natural and Adversarial; A Policy Perspective |
| Mark Olson |
Reducing GMD Risks to Reliability of the North American Electricity Grid |
| William Bauman III |
Provision of the Space Weather Advisory for International Air Navigation |
| Richard Marshall |
Space Weather Services for Australia's Critical Infrastructure |
| Yuki Kubo |
Asia Oceania Space Weather Alliance (AOSWA) |
| Juha-Pekka Luntama |
European Space Agency Space Situational Awareness Lagrange Mission to L5 Point |
Economic Impact Assessment
Chair: Chris Cannizzaro |
| Pierre Langlois |
The Canadian Space Weather Socioeconomic Impact Study |
| Susan Taylor |
The Social and Economic Impacts of Space Weather (US Project) |
| Mark Gibbs |
Testing Realistic Scenarios for Space Weather: The Economic Impacts of Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Failure in the UK |
| Nicola Fox |
Special Presentation: Parker Solar Probe: A NASA Mission to Touch the Sun |
| Wednesday, April 18 |
Col. Jeff Jarry and
Dr. Mark Pesses |
Air Force Space Weather – The Way Ahead |
Panel Session: Space Weather Action Plan Implementation – Challenges and Opportunities
Chair: Steven Clarke |
| Jim Spann |
NASA’s Role and Current Efforts for SWAP |
| Michael Wiltberger |
NSF’s Contributions to SWAP Implementation |
| Bill Lapenta |
NOAA Progress on SWAP Activities |
| Chris Cannizzaro |
Goal 6: International Activities |
| Carol Finn |
USGS Role in SW AP Implementation |
Research and Services Supporting Satellite Operations
Chair: Rob Redmon |
| Alec Engell |
Spacecraft Anomalies and Failures Workshop 2017 Summary |
| Linda Neergaard Parker |
Summaries for the 2017 Applied Space Environments Conference (ASEC) and the Space Environment Engineering and Science Applications Workshop (SEESAW) |
| Janet Green |
Tools for Understanding On-Orbit Satellite Anomalies |
| Richard Quinn |
AE9/AP9/SPM (IRENE) Commercial Deployment and Use |
| Steven Morley |
GPS Energetic Particle Data and their Use for Space Weather, Climatology, and Anomaly Assessment |
Building Resilience to Geomagnetic Induced Currents on the Electric Power Grid
Chair: Christopher Balch |
| Michael G. Henderson |
Impacts of Extreme Space Weather Events on Power Grid Infrastructure: Physics-Based Modelling of Geomagnetically-Induced Currents (GICs) During Carrington-Class Geomagnetic Storms |
| Mike Liemohn |
CHARGED: An NSF-Funded Initiative to Understand the Physics of Extreme GICs |
| Emanuel Bernabeu |
GMD Vulnerability Assessment |
| John Ostrich |
DOE's Recommended Monitoring Approach for GMDs and DOE’s Pilot Program to Test and Evaluate Devices that can Mitigae GMD Impacts on the Grid |
| Jeffrey Love |
Magnetic-Storm Geoelectric Hazard Maps and the Induction of Voltages on Power Grids |
Panel Session: Space Weather and Aviation - Making the Connection between Operations and Research
Chair: Robert Rutledge |
| Mike Stills |
United Airlines Space Weather Procedures and Needs |
| W. Kent Tobiska |
Real-time Radiation Weather for Commercial Aviation on the Horizon |
| Anthony Abate |
The Effects of the 10 SEP 17 Solar Event on HF Voice Comms Over the Atlantic |
Robert Rutledge and
Bill Murtagh |
SWPC Challenges and Opportunities for Supporting Aviation |
| Shawn Young |
AFRL Next-Gen Dose Rate Specification and Prediction |
| Thursday, April 19 |
| Rodney Viereck |
Space Weather Observations |
| Juan Rodriguez |
Status of the GOES-R Series Space Weather Observations |
| Richard Eastes |
The GOLD Mission – Real-time Imaging of the Space Weather in Earth’s Ionosphere and Thermosphere from Geostationary Orbit |
| Doug Biesecker |
DSCOVR – Status Update and Comparing Data from L1 |
| Jinwook Han |
Activities of Korean Space Weather Center |
| John Braun |
The FORMOSAT-7/COMIC-2 Satellite Mission: Expanding the Observational Capabilities for the Space Weather Community |
Timothy Duly,
Rob Kursinski and
Conrad Lautenbacher Jr. |
Update from Spire Global, GeoOptics and PlanetIQ |
Space Weather Observation Cont’d
Chair: Michael Bonadonna |
| Erik Richard |
Implementation of Solar Irradiance Measurements on the International Space Station (ISS): The TSIS-1 Mission of Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Observational Continuity |
| Jennifer Gannon |
Deployment of Magnetic and Electric Field Sensors for GIC Hazard Mitigation |
| Tony Gingiss |
OWS The Industrialization and Democratization of Space |
| Daniel Baker |
Five and One-Half Years of Radiation Belt Measurements: Space Weather in Earth’s Neighborhood |
| Alice Bunn |
Keynote |
Research to Operations
Chair: Terry Onsager |
| Jeffrey Thayer |
University of Colorado Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center |
| Daniel Welling |
Space Weather Forecasting Advancements at the University of Michigan |
| Brad Zavodsky |
Extending Terrestrial Weather R2O/O2R to Space Weather at NASA’s SPoRT Center |
| Maria Kuznetsova |
CCMC as a hub for R2O and O2R: capabilities, challenges and opportunities |
| Michael Starks |
Air Force Research Laboratory Space Weather Open Standards and Data Repository Initiatives |
Space Weather Services for Human Space Exploration
Chair: Scott McIntosh |
| John Guidi |
NASA's Near Term Human Exploration Plans |
| Kerry Lee |
Space Radiation Protection for NASA Exploration Class Missions |
| Nathan Schwadron |
Update on the Worsening Particle Radiation Environment Observed by CRaTER and Implications for Future Human Deep-Space Exploration |
| Friday, April 20 |
Ionosphere and Thermosphere Modeling and Prediction
Chair: Michael Wiltberger |
| Tim Fuller-Rowell |
Why the WAM in WAM-IPE? |
| Han-Li Liu |
Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Extension (WACCM-X): Model Capabilities and Validation |
| Joseph Huba |
Global Modeling of Metal Ions in the Ionosphere with SAMI3 |
| Geoff Crowley |
Private Sector Contributions to Ionospheric Monitoring |
| Robert Schunk |
USU GAIM Data Assimilation Models for Space Weather Specifications and Forecasts |
| Jimmy Raeder |
OpenGGCM Modeling of SAPS and Related Ionosphere-Thermosphere Phenomena |
Solar and Magnetosphere Modeling and Prediction
Chair: Michele Cash |
| Slava Merkin |
Toward a New Space Weather Model Suite |
| Antti Pulkkinen |
NASA GSFC Heliophysics Science Division and Space Weather |
| Mei-Ching Fok |
CIMI - Modeling the Inner Magnetosphere |
| Chris Balch |
Geolectric Field Maps: Progress on NOAA's Operational Near Real-Time Geoelectric Field Estimation Capability |
| Peter Riley |
Forecasting the Arrival Time of Coronal Mass Ejections: Current Capabilities and Uncertainties |
| Scott McIntosh |
Will There Even Be Sunspot Cycle 25? |
| Howard Singer |
Conference Closing Remarks |
